Ok, I can reproduce your problem. I tried on my computer to establish a connection to an http serveur (client speaks first) an to an ssh server (serveur speak firt), and I can reproduce the error i the both cases.
Can you run a tcpdump for validating the TCP connection establishment ? Thierry On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:59:09 -0400 Michael Ezzell <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the suggestion, Thierry. > > I assumed the ~= nil test would be valid (and evaluate as false) if the > value were uninitialized, but I've taken your advice. > > The result is the same. > > if connected == nil then > core.log(core.alert,"connect() failed with error: '" .. con_err .. "' > (connected == nil)\n"); > end > > Sep 1 15:51:38 localhost haproxy[25652]: connect() failed with error: > 'Can't connect' (connected == nil)

